Here are today’s questions. Answers will be published tomorrow. The theme runs from Mon-Thu:

1. The Bombe, an electromechanical code-breaking machine created by cryptologists in Britain during World War II to decode Enigma, was based on an earlier device invented in what country in the 1930s? All the equipment and knowledge was passed on to British cryptologists when this country was taken over by Germany.
2. What large device, first designed to calculate artillery firing tables during World War II, was eventually completed only in 1945 and then released to the public?
3. 2.3 million doses of penicillin were manufactured in anticipation of what major 1944 event? Commerical penicillin production had begun only after World War II began.
4. What incendiary substance was first developed during World War II and used in the fire-bombing campaign in Japan? Its use in the Korean and Vietnam wars brought it into mainstream public consciousness.
5. [Theme: 4 of 4] What word that is now usually associated with a certain level of prestige is believed to have been coined in French in the 18th century to refer to speculators who made a lot of money?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 38, Quiz 3:

1. Tumi
2. Samsonite
3. Hermes
4. Delsey
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday